Chapter 42: Halved
Sneer......
A strange sound of cutting metal, with a grinding tooth-like feeling, made people extremely uncomfortable to listen to, but this sound passed quickly, forming a stabbing and rapid cutting sound of a piece of cloth.
In short, it's a very complex sound.
However, when the sound was finished, the hoplite formation, which was already advancing, stopped, and the eyes of the soldiers in the front row suddenly became extremely frightened, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight, and their eyes were bulging out, and their eyes were covered with bloodshots.
Intuitively, they felt that something was wrong with their bodies, as if they had lost something, but they couldn't remember what was missing for a moment.
Immediately afterward, they all suddenly felt their bodies light, and fell forward, but when they fell, they remained in place from the waist down.
They threw out only the top half.
Yes...... Yes......
The shrill screams resounded throughout the city gates, like a terrible ghost, howling with all their might, as if they wanted to release all the breath of life.
The two moon blades went out, and eight of the ten side-by-side soldiers in the first row were directly cut in two, and the other two happened to be in the area where the moon blades missed, so they were spared.
However, only two of the ten soldiers in a platoon remained, and this hoplite formation was completely useless.
Especially the heart-rending howls of those soldiers who were beheaded on the ground, they have completely lost the motivation to fight, and several soldiers are directly incontinent.
The vast majority of soldiers go to the battlefield to fight, thinking about how to harvest the enemy's life and achieve their own glory, and rarely think that they will be killed.
But when that kind of extremely tragic death is in front of them, their nerves tend to collapse.
Beheading, known as one of the most cruel punishments in ancient times, is beheaded, because the important organs of the person are in the upper body, although there is no lower body, but still conscious, it will take a long time to die.
The sound of the criminal who has cut off his waist on the execution ground is enough to leave an eternal shadow in anyone's heart, and if you know that the next person to be cut off is yourself, then many will be directly stunned or have a mental breakdown.
Generally on the battlefield, although the battle is fierce, there are not many cases of such a halving, at most the head is gone, and it is directly hung up.
As hoplites, the possibility of being cut in half is even lower, because they have heavy armor and heavy shields, and even if they are a strong fighter, it is extremely difficult to cut off a hoplite.
Although it is difficult for fighters to do this, the elven blade car can do it.
The armor of the hoplites is very thick, but it is only compared to the light infantry, if it is really covered with all iron, then there are few people who can move on the battlefield.
Their shield is very strong, but in fact it is not a completely iron shield, if such a large and thick shield is all iron, then how many catties will be gained, and it may even reach three or four hundred catties, even if there are strong men who can carry such a shield, but how can they fight? It's hard to move.
The shields of the hoplites were actually also made of wood, but the surface was inlaid with enough iron sheets and copper nails that it was difficult for conventional weapons to break.
However, the elven blade is not a conventional weapon.
The two moon blades completely broke through the first column of hoplites, and the remaining momentum was not weakened, and they were directly embedded in the waists of the soldiers in the second row, although these soldiers were not completely cut in half, but they were also cut in half, and they fell to the ground and howled in more pain.
And before they could come to their senses, the orc infantry had quickly resisted the two bladed carts from both sides, and the two bladed carts with moon blades on them were carried out.
Sneer......
Two moonblades shot out again, and two rows of hoplites were cut in half again.
After these two moon blades, in less than three seconds, the two bladed cars in the third row were carried out again and struck again.
Xiao Yu sent a total of six bladed carts here at the city gate, two in a row, three rows in turn, wound up, fire, one row after the launch of the orc infantry immediately resisted, to make room for the behind, the back followed closely to continue to strike, in this way, the formation of a rapid and dense heavy fire strike.
The hoplites only felt countless silver platters flying over, cutting them in half of various shapes, and all kinds of internal organs flowed out and scattered all over the ground.
At this point, the heavy infantry has completely lost their fighting spirit, and with this kind of dense heavy firepower, they seem to have no other way out except to die.
The cross-section of the moon blade was too large, and the hole in the city gate was small, and they had nowhere to hide, and their armor and shields could not prevent it, so they could only shout in horror and retreat quickly.
Originally, their magician could pose a threat to the blade car, but the magician also needed the infantry in front of him to resist before he could release his magic.
But now that the infantry in front of him were falling down like wheat, and it was about to be his turn, where did he still have the heart to chant magic.
Now, these hoplites have only one thought, a quick retreat, away from here, away from this terrifying weapon, this kind of weapon, which does not belong to this world at all, should belong to hell.
"If you want to run, it's not that easy." Xiao Yu looked at the city and looked at a few hoplite formations that completely collapsed after taking a look, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
The Moonblade is such a weapon that is really damn amazing.
"Catapult, prepare, set fire." With a wave of Xiao Yu's hand, the ten catapults on the head of the city smashed at the hoplites in front of the city gate after adjusting the launch distance.
The hoplites can defend against sword attacks, but dozens of pounds of stones falling from more than ten meters, even with steel helmets, can smash the steel helmets flat, even if they hold a shield to resist, I am afraid they can directly smash their arms.
Bang bang bang......
Countless stones were smashed down, and the hoplites who had not yet entered the city gate suddenly became live targets, and the dense formation made it more difficult for them to dodge and resist.
A stone fell freely more than ten meters away, and even if they were strong, they would definitely not be able to stop it.
There is no way back, there are pursuers in front, these hoplite formations that thought they could wipe out the orc infantry in one fell swoop, but at this time, there is no way to enter the heavens and the earth.
If their formation really faced the orc infantry, it was really possible to inflict massive damage on the orc soldiers. However, Xiao Yu is not a fool, how can he not understand the characteristics of the hoplite formation.
Although the orc infantry has now reached level 3, and many have reached level 4, it is still very difficult to break this kind of hoplite formation, and no matter how powerful their big axes are, it is difficult to completely smash through a row of iron walls.
Because ten people are one, the defensive power formed is definitely not as simple as ten ones, just like one chopstick is easy to break, but ten chopsticks are difficult to break.
This is exactly what happened to the hoplites.
Therefore, if these hoplite formations were dealt with in a Spartan manner like last time, the orc infantry would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
It's just that Xiao Yu, who deeply understands the principle of restraint between the arms, didn't plan to let the orc infantry fight their hoplite formation from the beginning. I know that I am going to suffer, who will fight you head-on?
If you deal with a single hoplite, there is no problem, even if the armor is thick, the orc infantry can take out the opponent with absolute strength advantage. However, the hoplite formation will not work. The orcs cooperate with the formation in this area, which is indeed an absolute weakness.
Therefore, from the beginning, Xiao Yu did not intend to let the orc infantry smash the opponent's hoplite formation. In the previous Warcraft games, the fight was to restrain each other, and to hit each other with the troops that the other party had no way to restrain them.
Originally, it was indeed very difficult to deal with hoplites, because this kind of iron-walled advance attack could only be exploded by the heavy fire attack of the magician's magic.
But now Xiao Yu only has a mage hero like a great magician, and he is also an ice method, and he is practicing ice pick technique, not a fire spell that is good at exploding and breaking.
At this time, the appearance of blade cars and catapults just solved the problem of Xiao Yuzhong's lack of firepower. As long as the troops are compatible, even if the difference in strength is several times, they can still win, which is the best way for Xiao Yu to compete in the past.
"First group, prepare, shoot, second group, prepare, shoot......" After the catapult smashed the hoplite formation, Xiao Yu immediately ordered the musketeers gathered near the city gate to start firing.
Xiao Yu divided the musketeers into four groups, a group of twenty-five, and the four groups took turns to shoot, with almost no time intervals, although they did not have the same firepower as the machine guns in their previous lives, but they also achieved the same effect.
The armor of the hoplites was very thick, and in some places it could protect against the fire of muskets, but in some places it was weak, and it could not protect against the fire of muskets.
The indiscriminate fire of these muskets often hit the weak points of these hoplites, causing casualties.
Blade carts, catapults, plus dwarven musketeers, three long-range heavy firepower, directly crushed Karui's hoplite formation.
"Cut, it's so boring, you dare to provoke me with such a little ability."
Xiao Yu sat down in the rocking chair and continued to pick up the red wine, squinting his eyes, revealing the smile that always made people look treacherous and despicable.
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